Luke 6:46-49-46 “Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and do not do what I say?47 As for everyone who comes to me and hears my words and puts them into practice, I will show you what they are like. 48 They are like a man building a house, who dug down deep and laid the...
John 5:1-15-5 Some time later, Jesus went up to Jerusalem for one of the Jewish festivals. 2 Now there is in Jerusalem near the Sheep Gate a pool, which in Aramaic is called Bethesda[a] and which is surrounded by five covered colonnades. 3 Here a great number of...
The Questions of Jesus-Why are You So Afraid? Mark 4, Luke 8, and Matthew 8, all tell the same boat story about Jesus and the disciples. In Luke’s telling of the story, he says in Luke 8:22 that Jesus said to the disciples, “Let us go over to the other side of the...
Mark 10:46-52 46 Then they came to Jericho. As Jesus and his disciples, together with a large crowd, were leaving the city, a blind man, Bartimaeus (which means “son of Timaeus”), was sitting by the roadside begging. 47 When he heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he...
Jesus asked lots of questions of people in the Gospels. He was skillful in the way He asked them. His timing and prowess were impeccable. Through His skillful line of questioning, He was seeking to bring greater revelation to those who would pause to consider what...
Luke 15:11ff11 Jesus continued: “There was a man who had two sons. 12 The younger one said to his father, ‘Father, give me my share of the estate.’ So he divided his property between them. As Jesus told this story, both sons received the same share of their father’s...
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